Here is also a different way of aggregating this data – the algorithm did significantly better than all of the optometrists and matched the performance of the number one retina specialist.
" The biggest predictor of how nearsighted you're going to be, is when you become nearsighted, " says Jeffrey Walline, an optometrist and associate dean of research at The Ohio State University.
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" These rates of myopia going up started before the first iPhone was introduced, " says David Berntsen, an optometrist at the University of Houston, whose research focuses on myopia.
" Kids are becoming nearsighted at rates that are faster than we've ever seen before, " says Nick Onken, an optometrist at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. " It's faster than even genetics alone can account for."